An article in the Australian Financial Review disproves
that the Prime Minister is inclined to disengage with
anyone or anything that would bring power prices down.

On the contrary. The Prime Minister had summoned energy
retailers and Chief Executives to Canberra to explain
why they are charging households and small businesses
so much compared to their counterparts in other
countries.

As Josh Freidenberg explained the government's aim was to get
certainty into the market to drive prices down and to ensure
a more stable system overall. Read more here:

http://www.afr.com/news/australian-households-pay-highest-power-prices-in-world-20170804-gxp58a

Another one of your famous references dated 4/8/17 that doesn't open beyond the first paragraph, Foxy. It "disproves" nothing, and I'm sticking with my source, Roger Franklin in Quadrant Online.

Dear ttbn,

My article simply shows that the government was trying
to do something regarding the high power prices. You and
your article gave a different impression.

However, whatever rocks your boat.

Enjoy your gruntlement.

Foxy,
I tend to agree with Saul Eastlake who says that Turnbull is "a better manager than Abbott, but not much".

He's definitely a better communicator but he doesn't have much to sell.

He's obsessed with those corporate tax cuts as a magical solution to everything but heavily politicises all his decisions rather than providing evidence for his policies.

While he complains about Labor's threat to dividend imputation handouts to self-funded retirees he's conveniently forgotten that he removed the pension entirely from thousands of people himself.
The imputation suggestion (like the one about negative gearing) came from Treasury advice but Turnbull chose to ignore both for political reasons.

When the changes to penalty rates were raised, his government didn't even bother to put in a submission and just looked the other way.

His party promoted the sale of State electricity assets insisting that prices would fall and supplies would be guaranteed under private ownership and are now considering "socialising" Liddell power station. That site was valued at zero when it was effectively given away to AGL as part of the Bayswater sale on the mutual understanding that it would be shut down in 2017 when the Tomago smelter closed.
It's a history of bad economic decisions that are coming back to haunt them.

It's also about a lack of confidence in the future and I don't see much out there at the moment.

In the end, the statistics and the polls tell the story about his management. People don't think their situations have improved and don't expect them to under the current regime.

Runner, sorry to inform you but Abbott/Turnbull have not stopped the boats, they have gagged to MSM from reporting any SIEV's landing (including interceptions at sea near Territorial Borders).

Along with this they have taken funding away from NORFORCE and redistributed those funds to the recently formed Border Force, with lesser amounts to Customs and the AFP, AQIS. There were even discussions at a high level to get "contractors" to carry out patrols previously conducted by Regional Force Surveillance Units in the FNQ/Kimberley/Arnhem Land regions.

The RAN Patrol boats (same class & design as the ones Customs/BF use) are constantly on the slipway at HMAS Coonawarra in Darwin or NQEA in Cairns getting cracked hulls welded up, or fuel problems sorted.

There are other issues such as recruiting trained crews to man patrols within RAN/Customs/BF...meanwhile the SIEV's getting through are intercepted only mere miles off our coast & towed back to Gove, Darwin, Thursday Island, Weipa, or Christmas Island in the wee small hours to avoid the public glare.

Dear rache,

Thanks for replying to my question concerning Turnbull.

Things do look dismal at the moment.

Hopefully, they'll improve at least before the next election.